The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-01
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY /. 1887
KANSAS CITY.
H. D. j. Does the Growing West
ern Metropolis.
KANSAS CRY, No January %, 1887.

KANSAS CRY, Mo January %, 1887.
To the Editor OF THE HERALD.
Having heard and read so much about
this place, and knowing that some OF
my friends reside here, 1 thought best
to take the place in while in this coun-
try, and therefore boarding train of
the Kansas City, st. Joe and Council
Bluffs Railroad Company, 1 made the
trip few days ago, and here [ am,
sweating from the great heat, suffering
from the great smoke and mentally
swearing at each and every annoyance
attending atoo sudden change Of al
itude and climate.
Here, as at Omaha, nearly every ten.
able Office contains one or more real
esta agent. | have been in one room
here, not more than 24x36, in which are
four different firms dealing in dirt. This
thing Of packing INTO one place SO many
persons engaged in the same business,
did not seem to me to be quite the
proper thing. At least l would not like
to be so closely connected with com
petitors in business. I have been
amused to see curious clerk or
principal watching his neighbor, who
might be conversing with a client.
evidently anxious to capture an item
surrept,tiously by which he might, per
haps profit. However unpleasant,
these people submit to the condition
becau it saves expense of office rent
d fuel.
can hardly see how the prese
price, OF lots in this city can be mali.
tanned, much less how they can in
crease
1 met here, the other day, Judge
TWiss, who once sat upon the judicial
bench in Salt Lake. He is looking well
and feeling we'll also, infer, from the
results of an investment made some
years ago, by which he be-
came possessed of some eighty
acres of suburban land. The
price paid l do not remember. but ii
must have been inconsiderable, how
ever. Not long since he sold forty
acres for $40 90. He yet owns twenty
acres for which he asks 5000 per acre
and has been offered $4,000, that is, be
asks 100000 for the tract and has been
offered $50 900. And this land must be
at least three miles from the Union De
pot. How is that for high?
l visited a lot about the same distance
from the business centre, though on an
outside business street, for which the
owner asked S175 per front foot.
The Times building, which is supposed
to be the best corner in the city
having three fronts-:hough not large
the exact size of the lot l am unable to
glve-is held, l understand, at $3.50 900
including the plant and good will
Wyandotte, across the Kansas River
is also booming they say did not visit
it, but it is SAID to contain about $500
inhabitants. Then there are several
other suburbs, and Independence,
which is distant about nine miles from
the central point of Kansas City.
presumei from what l heard, that
Kansas City and suburbs contain about
200 600 inhabitants.
Burding IS progressing here. Even
now large brick houses are going up in
various directions. Most branches OF
business seem to be prosperous, though
of course l can't Tell whether it is reai
or only seeming. One thing l noticed
however, and that is there did not seem
to be many idle persons, and l noticed
but few houses ITO let
On the whole. l conclude that, al
though there will doubtless be an end
10 the present boom in real estate, yet
Kansas City will become q very large
town and a railroad centre OF import
ancc.
H, D, J.